Fastening for butter-pail covers



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C. L. STEPHENS.

FASTBNING PoR BUTTER BAIL COVERS.'

Patented Mar. 14,1882.

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UNITE@ STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OONNER L. STEPHENS, OF BROOKLYN, PENNSYLVANIA.

FASTENING FOR BUTTER-PAIL COVERS.

SPECIFICATIONformng part of Letters Patent No. 254,848, dated March 14, 1882. Application filed October 1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, CONNER L. STEPHENS, ofBroolrlyn, county of S'nsqnehan na, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Iniproved Fastening for Batter-Peil Covers; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists in providing a cheap, irm, reliable, and easily operated fastening for such pails without bringing any metal in contact With the contents of the pail, as hereinafter described, and pointed ont in the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l represents a vertical central section of the fastening 011 line a Fig. 2, with cap shown. Fig. 2 represents top view of a sufficient portion ot' the cover to show the fastenings with the cap represented by Fig. 3 removed. Fig. 3 represents the under side view of a cap-piece which extends across the cover over the fastenings.

A refers to snfticient portion of the cover to show the arrangement ot' the fastenings B to `an iron permanently fastened to the cover, turned down at the end, so as to catch on to the catch F E, permanentlyY attached to the staves of the pail H. O refers to an iron shaped like the one B, and attached to the cover by the spiral spring D, by which attachment the cover is held latched to the catch F E when at its place npon the pail, and by which, by pressing outward on thethumb-piece I, attached to the iron catch-piece C, the fastening is unlatched and the cover loosed from the pail. G refers to the portion of the cover` on which the fastenings are attached. .J refers to a hollow made in the cover and cross-cap, by which room is made for the spiral spring D to work in. K refers to the cap-piece extending across the cover over the fastening. L refers to a slot on the under side of the cap K, in which the thumb-piece I Works'in the latching and unlatchingthereof.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The tub H, provided with the catches F, in combination ith the cover A, provided with the fixed plate B and the sliding plate O, having thumb-piece I, and retractingspring D, all constructed to operate substantially as described.

(JONNER- L. STEPHENS.

Witnesses:

M. D. BET'rs, A. W. KENT. 

